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...electronic computers for the armed forces and industry. In Computer Research, Allyn is buying a big stake in the future of electronic brains. With the help of Computer's staff, he hopes to turn out electronic computers for as little as $2,500, get a toehold on what he thinks is the biggest future development for business machines. Says Allyn: "There's a limit to how far you can go with the present electrically operated machines...
Evita's only toehold on philosophy was a bitter conviction that "there are rich and there are poor, and the odd thing is that the existence of the poor pains me less than the knowledge that at the same time others are rich." This idea dovetailed with Perón's own belief that an ambitious man could get to the top by becoming lider of Argentina's millions of poor, politically neglected "shirtless ones."* Eva Duarte quickly showed a sure, histrionic instinct for winning the descamisados over to Perón; when he was jailed...
Robert Taft limped out of the New Jersey primary last week, still without a firm toehold on either coast. It was 388,907 for Eisenhower to 228,664 for Taft, with Harold Stassen as usual panting far behind (23,801 votes). Republican leaders counted 36 of the state's 38 delegates for Ike, only two for Taft. Eisenhower carried 20 of the state's 21 counties, losing only Hudson County (Jersey City) to the Ohio Senator...
This relationship gives the meteorologists a toehold. By measuring the speed of the wind aloft and the distances between the waves, they can predict with some accuracy how fast the waves will drift. They gather this information by means of sounding balloons that carry small radios. When such reports from all over North America are evaluated and combined with local data, the Weather Bureau predicts cautiously what sort of weather the waves aloft will bring to each part of the U.S. during 1) the next five days, and 2) the next 30 days...
...other proponent had put the case for U.S. troops to Europe more expertly. The Wherry resolution, Dewey said, was the final "little toehold of isolationism . . . the last gasp of ... a school of thought which basically would like to withdraw from all the world to our own shores...